Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach' or Ender from 'Ender's Game.' They were just ordinary people who were living under various amounts of struggle, and just to follow their journeys and see them break out of that and live extraordinary lives - I think that gave me a lot of hope as a kid.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language. For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your hands.

I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

President Clinton is one of the dominant figures on the global stage. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.